This is a reference book. The reader has the right to expect a clearly defined scope, specific
criteria for inclusion, and 100 percent inclusion of everything that meets those criteria.
Those were the objectives of A Biographical Dictionary of the Baseball Hall of Fame when the
first edition was published in 2000. They remain the same with this second edition—which
has been updated to include more than 50 new biographies of players, managers, umpires,
baseball executives, broadcasters and writers who have earned their place among the greats of
the game in the past eight years.

Basketball: A Biographical Dictionary, arranged alphabetically, features 577 basketball
entries. The selection of the basketball entries proved very challenging. Before making
final choices, the editor thoroughly researched several basketball encyclopedias and histories.
1 Of course, the editor assumes responsibility for any significant basketball figures
inadvertently excluded from this volume.

On March 2, 2005, President George W. Bush greeted Rachel Robinson in the Capitol
rotunda in Washington, D.C., and gently placed into her hand the Congressional Gold
Medal in the name of her deceased husband, Jack Roosevelt Robinson.
The ceremony of awarding the gold medal—the highest civilian honor that can be
presented by Congress—took place nearly fi fty-eight years after Robinson played his
fi rst Major League baseball game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. On that day in April 1947,
Robinson’s presence in the lineup represented a giant step for integration.

We describe a biographical multidocument summarizer that summarizes information about people described in the news. The summarizer uses corpus statistics along with linguistic knowledge to select and merge descriptions of people from a document collection, removing redundant descriptions. The summarization components have been extensively evaluated for coherence, accuracy, and non-redundancy of the descriptions produced.

This book aims to provide a general manual of English Literature for students in colleges and universities
and others beyond the highschool
age. The first purposes of every such book must be to outline the
development of the literature with due regard to national life, and to give appreciative interpretation of the
work of the most important authors.

(BQ) Ebook 100 Great Artists: A Visual Journey from Fra Angelico to Warhol has in full color, the works of one hundred of the world's greatest painters, from Giotto in the thirteenth century to Hockney in the twenty-first. Arranged alphabetically for easy reference, each artist occupies a double-page spread that contains a selection of pictures, accessible text, and a biographical timeline.

In August 1999, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) held a workshop at the
request of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to examine its
Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) concept.

John Stuart Mill in his "Autobiography" declares with truth that "the world would be astonished if it knew
how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for
wisdom and virtue are complete sceptics in religion." Many of these, as Mill points out, refrain from various
motives from speaking out. The work I have undertaken will, I trust, do something to show how many of the
world's worthiest men and women have been Freethinkers.
My Dictionary does not pretend to be a complete list of those who have rendered services to Freethought.

One of these websites is maintained by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC) for Mathematics and
Science Education.5 The ENC is a centralized site that gathers educational materials and makes them available
from its own computers. Content specialists find and acquire the rights to materials, write abstracts for the
resources on the site, enter data, and maintain the site catalog—a resource-intensive process that ensures quality
while slowing somewhat the provision of resources. A search engine allows users to find the materials in which
they are interested.

A Philadelphian had been talking with my mother of North and South, and had alluded to the engagement
between the Essex and the Arkansas, on the Mississippi, as a brilliant victory for the Federal navy. My mother
protested, at once; said that she and her sister Miriam, and several friends, had been witnesses, from the levee,
to the fact that the Confederates had fired and abandoned their own ship when the machinery broke down,
after two shots had been exchanged: the Federals, cautiously turning the point, had then captured but a
smoking hulk.

Toxicogenomics has been described as a discipline combining ex-
pertise in toxicology, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental
health to elucidate the response of living organisms to stressful environ-
ments. It includes the study of how genomes respond to toxicant expo-
sures and how genotype affects responses to toxicant exposures. As the
technologies for monitoring these responses rapidly develop, it is critical
that scientists and regulators are confident that the technologies are reli-
able and reproducible and that the data analyses have been validated.

Water utilities have a long history of planning in preparation for emergencies,
particularly natural disasters. But contingency and emergency planning has taken on a
new dimension with current concern about potential threats to water system security. The
range of crises that have become plausible has expanded, and utilities now are
considering more robust security procedures and emergency plans than they have
historically had in place. When it comes to ensuring a water system’s security, few
utilities, regardless of size or geographic location, can function independently.

It is just eleven years since Kinglake passed away, and his life has not yet been separately memorialized. A
few years more, and the personal side of him would be irrecoverable, though by personality, no less than by
authorship, he made his contemporary mark. When a tomb has been closed for centuries, the effaced
lineaments of its tenant can be re-coloured only by the idealizing hand of genius, as Scott drew Claverhouse,
and Carlyle drew Cromwell. But, to the biographer of the lately dead, men have a right to say, as Saul said to
the Witch of Endor, "Call up Samuel!" In your study of...

The following is a brief sketch of the life of one who, though perhaps more widely known as the Proprietor
and Founder of Pennsylvania, was also eminent as a minister of the gospel in the Society of Friends, and
distinguished for his superior intellectual abilities, his varied culture, and, above all, for his devoted Christian
character, exemplified both in adversity and prosperity. It is taken principally from a work entitled "Friends in
the Seventeenth Century.

The hanging of several anarchists in 1887 as a consequence of the Haymarket bombing in Chicago caused
many Americans to sympathize with the gibbeted radicals. Youths swathed in bright idealism, men and
women rooted in equalitarian democracy, workers trusting in the rectitude of their government--all doubted
the guilt of the condemned prisoners and were deeply perturbed by the egregious miscarriage of justice.

Having visited the South for the benefit of my health, I arrived at Savannah, in Georgia, on the 10th of
February, 1834; and, indulging the common inquisitiveness of a stranger about the place, was informed that
just one hundred and one years had elapsed since the first settlers were landed there, and the city laid out.
Replies to other inquiries, and especially a perusal of McCall's History of the State, excited a lively interest in
the character of General OGLETHORPE, who was the founder of the Colony, and in the measures which he
pursued for its advancement, defence, and prosperity.

When Edward Temple was about eight or nine years old he was afflicted with a disorder of the eyes. It was so
severe, and his sight was naturally so delicate, that the surgeon felt some apprehensions lest the boy should
become totally blind. He therefore gave strict directions to keep him in a darkened chamber, with a bandage
over his eyes. Not a ray of the blessed light of heaven could be suffered to visit the poor lad.
This was a sad thing for Edward. It was just the same as if there were to be no more sunshine, nor moonlight,
nor glow of the...

We are reminded daily of the uncertainty of human life: for the young and the old, the gay and the grave, the
good and the wicked, are subject to death. Young people do not realize this, but it is nevertheless true, and
before you are old enough, my children, to understand and lay to heart all that your mother would tell you of
her dearly beloved father, she may be asleep with grandma, close beside him in Bellefontaine. An earthly
inheritance is highly esteemed among men. For this reason great efforts are made by them to lay up treasures
for their children. They know not,...